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In this paper, we address a long-standing challenge: how to achieve both efficiency and scalability in solving semidefinite programming problems. We propose breakthrough acceleration techniques for a wide range of low-rank…
We propose a manifold optimization approach to solve linear semidefinite programs (SDP) with low-rank solutions, with an emphasis on SDP relaxations for polynomial optimization problems. This approach incorporates the inexact augmented…
This paper proposes a dual Riemannian alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) for solving low-rank semidefinite programs with unit diagonal constraints. We recast the ADMM subproblem as a Riemannian optimization problem over the…
We present ADMM-Softmax, an alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) for solving multinomial logistic regression (MLR) problems. Our method is geared toward supervised classification tasks with many examples and features. It…
This paper introduces an efficient first-order method based on the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) to solve semidefinite programs (SDPs) arising from sum-of-squares (SOS) programming. We exploit the sparsity of the…
The semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxation has proven to be extremely strong for many hard discrete optimization problems. This is in particular true for the quadratic assignment problem (QAP), arguably one of the hardest NP-hard…
We propose a bilinear decomposition for the Burer-Monteiro method and combine it with the standard Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers algorithm for semidefinite programming. Bilinear decomposition reduces the degree of the…
Augmented Lagrangian Method (ALM) combined with Burer-Monteiro (BM) factorization, dubbed ALM-BM, offers a powerful approach for solving large-scale low-rank semidefinite programs (SDPs). Despite its empirical success, the theoretical…
In this paper, we aim to provide a comprehensive analysis on the linear rate convergence of the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) for solving linearly constrained convex composite optimization problems. Under a certain…
Many problems in control theory can be formulated as semidefinite programs (SDPs). For large-scale SDPs, it is important to exploit the inherent sparsity to improve the scalability. This paper develops efficient first-order methods to solve…
Convex quadratic programs (QPs) constitute a fundamental computational primitive across diverse domains including financial optimization, control systems, and machine learning. The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) has…
The matrix low-rank approximation problem with additional convex constraints can find many applications and has been extensively studied before. However, this problem is shown to be nonconvex and NP-hard; most of the existing solutions are…
Low-rank representation (LRR) is an effective method for subspace clustering and has found wide applications in computer vision and machine learning. The existing LRR solver is based on the alternating direction method (ADM). It suffers…
Tenfold improvements in computation speed can be brought to the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) for Semidefinite Programming with virtually no decrease in robustness and provable convergence simply by projecting…
We propose an efficient first-order method, based on the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM), to solve the homogeneous self-dual embedding problem for a primal-dual pair of semidefinite programs (SDPs) with chordal sparsity.…
Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) has been used successfully in many conventional machine learning applications and is considered to be a useful alternative to Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) as a deep learning optimizer.…
The Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) has now days gained tremendous attentions for solving large-scale machine learning and signal processing problems due to the relative simplicity. However, the two-block structure of the…
We investigate the local linear convergence properties of the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) when applied to Semidefinite Programming (SDP). A longstanding belief suggests that ADMM is only capable of solving SDPs to…
In this paper, we propose a new stochastic alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) algorithm, which incrementally approximates the full gradient in the linearized ADMM formulation. Besides having a low per-iteration complexity as…
In this paper we develop an accelerated Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) algorithm for solving quadratic programs called superADMM. Unlike standard ADMM QP solvers, superADMM uses a novel dynamic weighting method that…